Stalin’s half-brother, a French spy, and a movie star: the mystery of the Davrishashvili family

He appeared in films by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, sharing the screen with Louis de Funès and Alain Delon. On French movie posters, he was credited as Serge Davri. Yet few French cinema-goers ever suspected the extraordinary and perilous history behind his surname. This is the story of the Davrishashvili family, who were rumored to be blood relatives of Joseph Stalin. Let us try to unravel this tangled mystery.